Omari Spellman Gets Traded To The Warriors, Hawks Get Damian Jones

Spellman, who has played two summer league games this past week, averaging 12 points and eight rebounds, will have to lose a little groove in his game and change his pace to be joining a team with new acquired talent D’Angelo Russell from the Brooklyn Nets, as well as his former Wildcat teammate, Eric Paschall, who was drafted 41st overall earlier last month. The Warriors released lost DeMarcus Cousins due to his contract running out, and will be joining a front court with Draymond Green, Kevin Looney and Andrew Bogut. Klay Thompson will be out for the majority of the next season after getting ACL surgery after injuring it in the NBA Finals. Spellman could be an eventual sixth man for the team, as the Warriors lack serious depth after losing Kevin Durant to the Nets and Andre Iguodala to the Memphis Grizzlies.

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Spellman was drafted 30th overall last year, and played in 46 games in a rookie season that consisted of 11 starts. The 21-year-old averaged almost six points a game, with 4.2 rebounds in the NBA. He also played in the affiliated Hawks’ G-League team, the College Park Skyhawks in the latter part of the 2018-19 season.